Accessing macOS Calendar events to calculate hours worked

Question

I’d like to add up how much time I spend working each week.

I keep track of when I work by entering an event in a dedicated calendar that I subscribe to in macOS/iOS Calendar.

My first ideas were:

• Is there a way to do this with Shortcut (the new Automator?)
• Is there an AppleScript approach to take?
• Maybe I can form or access an API that serializes the calendar event objects to a format I can consume in another programming environment like Ruby or Smalltalk?
• Should I skip trying to use macOS calendar and see if I can authenticate to the calendar feed and work directly from there with a calendar library?

Thanks in advance for an ideas you might have!

Answer 1

I figured it out using Shortcuts, the new version of Automator!

Here’s what the program looks like: